Cosmic Consciousness by Ali Nomad
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He sings: "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth For his love is better than wine." Again he cries: "Behold thou art fair my love, behold thou art fair, thou _hast dove's eyes_." The realization of _mukti_, i.e., the power of the _atman_ to transcend the physical, is thus expressed by Solomon, clearly indicating that he had found liberation: "My beloved spoke and said unto me, 'Rise up my love my fair one, and come away. For lo, the winter is passed, the rain is over and gone. "'The flowers appear upon the earth; the time of singing of birds has come, and the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land. "'The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vine with the tender grapes gives a goodly smell. Arise my love, my fair one, and come away.'" It is assumed that these lines do not refer to a personal hegira, but rather to the act of withdrawing the Self from the things of the outer life, and fixing it in contemplation upon the larger life, the supra-conscious life, but there is no reason to doubt that they may refer to a longing to commune with the beautiful and tender things of nature. |
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